Niels Wouters – Writing

Climate change and parenting

These are times where one should question how we, as members of society, will formulate meaningful responses to the ever-increasing global complexity: what is the world that our children will grow up in like? How can today’s crises empower parents and children across the globe to cease the current political standstill and instead implement sustainable strategies to prevent further destruction?

Big Brother walks into an office …

A 300% increase in three years; from 200 million in 2017 to 626 million in 2020. This astounding number is the most recent prediction for the total number of surveillance cameras across China (Qiang, 2019). Close to a single camera per 2,000 inhabitants, all fully networked to form the Skynet project — perhaps an awkward name, as Skynet in The Terminator movies attempted to exterminate humanity